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cross-posted from: https://rabbitea.rs/post/280182

I think this is appropriate here!

‘I am a self-expressive person and I feel very confident with pink hair so I came up with a solution to keep the job and my hair’

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[-] MyFairJulia@lemmy.world 189 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I hope her creative resistance doesn't get incorporated as part of the brand of her workplace.

EDIT: To the downvoters:

Brands have begun to incorporate some imperfections into their marketing. For example the Deutsche Bahn, our german railway company, are sometimes making jokes about how their trains are notoriously late. Are they making their service better? No. Or not noticeably so far. I think McDonalds have also made jokes about their broken soft ice machines and they did not do anything to make them more reliable. According to iFixit, they and the company making the machines have actively fought against a small company that wanted to make a tool to making fixing these machines easier.

So that's why i hope that our wig-wearing heroine doesn't just get incorporated into the marketing instead of being allowed to show her pink hair.

[-] Aceticon@lemmy.world 60 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yeah, the marketing version of "inclusiveness":

"We are a great, hip and youthfull place to work: just look at *picture of male model with a hipster beard* Joe from Accounting"

(Reminds me of how since about first Tech boom, Tech companies would show to the Press and prospective candidates all the amazing facilities they have for employees to relax - fuzzball tables, relax-spaces with beanbag chairs, even indoor slides - but if you're on the inside you quickly find out you're expected to work 12h/day on a never ending sequence of death marches and you'll never actually have time to use those "relax facilities")

This kind of thing is the result of about the same process as their businesswise evaluation of complying with regulations: they usually conclude that the profit maximizing option is to provide the appearence of complying whilst internally and through less explicit methods (usually all in choices that aren't explicitly justified) acting in a completelly different way.

If there is one thing companies have learned in the last 4 decades is that image managements is way cheaper (read: "profit enhancing") than actually doing the right things and delivers pretty much the same results if in influencing those external to the company.

One can trust a corporation about as much as one can trust a known sociopath.

[-] slaacaa@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

One a sidenote, I never got the point of e.g. xbox rooms and ping pong tables in offices. Why the hell would I want to relax in a place of work? I want to do my work, then go home (to relax). Playing 30 min video games in the afternoon would mean that happens 30 mins later.

[-] Default_Defect@midwest.social 5 points 1 year ago

picture of male model with a hipster beard* Joe from Accounting

Literally me.

Except for the accounting job... and being a model.

[-] CaptFeather@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago

McDonalds does it on purpose to give work to the "technicians" that service the machines. They're bogus simple issues like overfilling that lock the machine down until they use their service tool to clear it. Great doc by Johnny Harris if you have 30min to kill

[-] toxicbubble@lemmy.world 105 points 1 year ago

dress codes have always been rooted in racism & sexism. there's absolutely no reason a job should control your hair unless it disrupts business, not for "offending conservatives"

[-] xantoxis@lemmy.world 104 points 1 year ago

"They think this is better?"

Yes, they actually do. They're probably conservative dickheads. They know that pink hair is code for "I am a tolerant and kind person; I might be gay but not necessarily; I support counterculture ideas."

They hate the counterculture ideas. They don't hate the color pink. Covering it up with a terrible wig makes it about something else.

Or anyway, so they think. What they've actually done is given her an opportunity to start conversations about the pink hair.

[-] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 20 points 1 year ago

What they’ve actually done is given her an opportunity to start conversations about the pink hair.

Keen insight. I wouldn't have known she exists otherwise.

[-] JohnnyEnzyme@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago

They’re probably conservative dickheads.

Hah! It doesn't even take that. All you need is a middle-management who doesn't support the rights of their workforce, is inconvenienced should a customer gin up complaints about OP's hair-color (whatever it is), and is generally just lazy and indifferent, learning from upper mgmt that growth & profits are 99% the things that count, followed by limiting liability situations. The workers themselves are just an inconvenient expense in the equation.

[-] blindbunny@lemmy.ml 34 points 1 year ago

Capitolist have controlled out bodies for far too long.

[-] UnbeatenDeployGoofy@lemmy.ml 28 points 1 year ago

landed a front-of-house role in the hospitality industry without a face-to-face or video interview

Seems like the flawed interviewing process is to blame.

[-] sudo@lemmy.today 44 points 1 year ago

Yes, so they could discriminate her based on her looks sooner?

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[-] NickwithaC@lemmy.world 27 points 1 year ago
[-] Lazylazycat@lemmy.world 19 points 1 year ago

Probably not, in a previous job my hair (wig or real) had to be a "natural" colour.

[-] MargotRobbie@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago

Terrible?

This woman has great taste in wigs. I dig them.

[-] NightLily@lemmy.basedcount.com 13 points 1 year ago
[-] UmbrellAssassin@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

I'm sure there was a dress code when she signed up for the job. She agreed to it. Instead of realizing how childish she's acting, she just doubles down and whines on the internet. Really a snapshot of people these days.

[-] NatoBoram@lemm.ee 22 points 1 year ago

A job shouldn't force you to modify your body in any capacity

[-] just_change_it@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Can I be full on nudist then?

fwiw I think pink hair should be perfectly fine but there are some rules with dress that are a good idea. I don't care if you wear a dress, slacks or have rainbow hair but generally I prefer people I do business with to wear stuff.

Then there's food safety. Things like hair nets and prohibiting certain jewelry and outfits in food processing plants is another example of when sometimes it's ok to limit personal expression for the sake of others'. A server though? No such reason. Maybe a hair net if they brought food to your table or were also a chef.

[-] LegionEris@feddit.nl 17 points 1 year ago

Literally none of the things you listed here count as modifying your body? As a reply to "nobody should have to arbitrarily change their body for their employer," "sometimes there are practical clothing and equipment requirements" is practically a non-sequitur.

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[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago

She seems to be obeying the dress code now. And it doesn't sound like she's whining to me.

[-] troglodytis@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Well, at least you're sure

[-] kttnpunk@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

These expectations are the problem, if I agreed to sell my soul because I didn't want to read a several page agreement while installing a free program, should they get it? Fuck no. Also, as somebody who's worked all sorts of different positions: these rules are unenforceable, in a lot of cases. If a business hires you, they will try to keep that asset. A lot of times managers do not care what you wear until you're someone they don't like. Especially if you work in food service, and make a standard industry wage (that is, not shit!!) Push that envelope. Your coworkers will too, maybe.

[-] Captain_Waffles@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

Exactly. Like there can be safety concerns and such, but not to the extent that some places push it. Like my neurologists infusion center doesn't care about tattoos, piercings, or hair color unless they might get caught on things or are NSFW. So all piercings must be small, smooth, and not hoops. Even gauged ears are fine as long as they have solid plugs. And most people are smart enough to only put NSFW tattoos in easily coverable places. Employers thinking they can just blinding dictate your entire appearance is absurd.

[-] Squander@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

She wanted attention and proved she'll do anything to get it.

[-] Mandy@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 year ago

You better believe those quotes, cause those wigs are fantastic

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